Description

The Responsive Blocks – WordPress Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘section_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13732

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: cyberchimps

Product: Responsive Blocks – WordPress Gutenberg Blocks

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 24.54% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-28 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c0e5c85-72c3-4f09-aade-ec5a82b9cc41?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-block-editor-addons/trunk/src/blocks/post-carousel/index.php#L643
https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-block-editor-addons
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3231017/

Timeline